Save A Spider Monkey

Some kinds of spider monkeys are endangered. Why is this true?

• So many spider monkeys have been shot for food that they are absent from much of their former range.
• They are vulnerable because they have low maturation and reproduction rates.
• Their habitat, mature rain forests, is being lost to farming at the rate of 35,000 acres a day.

How to save the spider monkeys?

• People have worked together to form groups like the PRIMENET Project.
• They will teach people who live near the monkeys to protect them and not hunt them.
• Other people are using satellites to check out the rain forests to make sure they are not being destroyed.

Sources:

http://www.wellingtonzoo.com/animals/animals/primates/spider-monkey.html

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/press_office/media/media516.shtml